Brandon Dixon pitched a clean inning in this blowout. Michael Lorenzen playing Right Field, maybe a sign of things to come every now and then?
What happened to the Reds?
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No pitcher can throw that hard and hit 100+ consistently and expect to last very long. If the reds expect him to be some rubber armed starter throwing hundred mph pitches for 7 innings, then they won’t get much out of him. If that’s what they want, they need to turn him into the next Aroldis Chapman, make him a closer and limit him to 20-25 pitches.
Senzel to play outfield in the instructional league
https://www.mlb.com/reds/news/nick-senzel-to-play-of-in-instructional-league/c-295111978
https://www.mlb.com/reds/news/nick-senzel-to-play-of-in-instructional-league/c-295111978
Not a Reds fan.
But the answer is $$$.
The Reds need to recognize like some other smaller market teams that they can't be competitive every year or even most years. So they need to buy & sell such that they can have some "high peaks", although that will come with some "low valleys". For example, they shouldn't have held onto Votto the past few years, when they had no chance at being competitive. Sell high.
This is exactly what the Reds have been doing and it hasn't been working. 2010, 12-13 and from about late May to Mid-July of this past year were nice, rest of the time has been a complete dumpster fire. After the injury riddled 2014 season and first year of Price as the manager, the Reds chose to go into another rebuilding mode that we're still in to this day.
Everyone knows they're never going to be a large market franchise. When the last fire sale started in 2015, the Castellini's publicly said our goal was to be contenders by 2018. We saw how that worked out didn't we? Paying Homer Bailey $105 million has been the most unproductive money spent but that's one of many shitty moves by the Castellini regime. Homer was 1-14 this past season! On the hook for another season of full salary until they can buy him out the year after. Some jokes just write themselves...
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Homer is stealing money from the Reds.
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Brewers Lose Pitching Coach Derek Johnson To Reds
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...ing-coach-derek-johnson-to-reds/#587397903389
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...ing-coach-derek-johnson-to-reds/#587397903389
Raisel Iglesias signs 3-year, $24M contract with Cincinnati Reds, could enter new role
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sp...l-reds-under-control-through-2021/2081863002/
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sp...l-reds-under-control-through-2021/2081863002/
Since the Reds suck at drafting, makes sense and also a relative bargain.
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